Laundry package



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' LAUNDRY PACKAGE Filed Nov. 10, 1934 I lamentedV Jaa. 7, ,193s

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE anzasis LAUNDRY momen Leland B. Morse,Chicago, Ill. Application November 10, 1934, Serial No. 752,407

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by laundries to preserve the shape and freshness of'a shirt duringtransportation and after delivery Vto the customer without the necessityof employing pins or like securing means attached to the body of theshirt. With these and other objects in View, reference is made to theaccompanying sheet of drawings which illustrates a preferred embodimentof this invention with the understanding that detail changes may be madewithout departing from the scope thereof. l

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of a freshly laundered shirtpackaged in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a, view in rear elevation of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of Figure l.

Figure 4 is a view in front elevation of an expanded strip of flexiblematerial employed in carrying out this invention.

For many years, many different means have been adopted by commerciallaundries for folding a shirt just laundered and'wrapping it in apackage thatnwill protect it from being soiled and otherwise preserveits freshness during transportation to the customer and after vreceiptbyl the customer untilit becomes desirable to wear it.

In the embodiment of this invention illustrated, a freshly launderedshirt is folded over an elongated rectangulary board I, such as cardboard or other light and inexpensive material of suicient rigidity tohold its shape during orof the board I. As the sides of the shirt aresymmetrically folded over the longer edges of the board, the folds ofthe shoulders 1 slopev downward on each side of the collar or neck bandso that the edges of the folded shoulders 5 meet at a point 8 upon theback of the board about half-way between the top of the neck collar band2 and the collar button 6.

Heretofore, strips of thin iiexible fibrous material, such as paper, ofvarious widths have been 10 employed to wrap about the shirt so foldedand the over-lapped endssecured atthe back in any desired manner.However, it is necessary to secure the top of the overlappedshoulderportions by a pin or other means for securing one portion vto the otherto prevent the tops of these folded draw the fabric of the front of theshirt taut A thereover to prevent wrinkles, and the tops of thefolded-over shoulder portions, unless pinned fshirt then folded upoverthe lower end of the board, as has been the custom in one type ofywith the buttonholed free ends secured by the insertion of a collarbutton 6 of bone or other inexpensive material with the center of thefront of the shirt lying over the longitudinal center line or otherwisesecured to each other fall outward over the top of the wrapper. l

In accordance with this invention, the top edge i of the wrapping strip9 of thin paper or other lover-lapped wrapper will embrace completelythe 40 over-lapped portions of the shoulders, and when the ends I3 andI4 of the wrapping strip are secured to each other at the back by asticker I5 or in any desired manner, the over-lappedmeeting of theshoulderA portions being covered by the 4wrapper will be held in placeWithout the necessity of any additional securing means. The wrappingstrip 9 may be any Width desired.

It is'therefore obvious that by the above de` scribed means, a shirt maybe packaged simply and efficiently at less cost and with fewer operaAtions than heretofore, and at the same time prei serve the freshness ofa laundered shirt.

What I claim is:

'A laundry package of the character described. 55

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comprising a. semi-iiexible oblong board about which Yo. shirt isadapted tobe folded with the sleeve and shoulder portions thereofoverlapping at the rear of said board, a thin flexible wrapping stripseparate from the board and folded/around the sides of the folded shirt,said wrapping strip being provided at its upper edge with a notch toaccommodate the neck band of the shirt, means for securing the free endsofthe mapping strip together to form a tubular container of a lengthsuicient only to hold the overlapped sleeveand shoulder portions of theshirt in folded condition independently of pins or the like, andallowing portions of said shirt to project above and below said tubularcontainer.

LELAND R. MORSE.

